Insurgent
[ɪn'sɜːdʒ(ə)nt] or [ɪn'sɝdʒənt]
Definition
(noun.) a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions).
(adj.) in opposition to a civil authority or government .
Editor: Val--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Rising in opposition to civil or political authority, or against an established government; insubordinate; rebellious.
(n.) A person who rises in revolt against civil authority or an established government; one who openly and actively resists the execution of laws; a rebel.
Checked by Evan
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Rebellious, seditious, insubordinate, disobedient, mutinous.
n. Rebel, traitor, revolter, renegade.
Inputed by Agnes
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Malcontent, rebel, traitor, mutineer, rioter
ANT:Patriot, adherent, supporter, constabulary, executive, ruler, magistrate
SYN:Rebellious, unruly
ANT:Loyal, patriotic, obedient
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Examples
- Yet for all this vigour on the part of the senatorial usurers, landgrabbers, and forestallers, the hungry and the anxious were still insurgent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The apparition had been transient--scarce seen ere gone; but its electric passage left her veins kindled, her soul insurgent. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Fallen, insurgent, banished, she remembers the heaven where she rebelled. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- For the insurgent become master is a fanatic from the struggle, and as George Santayana says, he is only too likely to redouble his effort after he has forgotten his aim. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Even highly critical and insurgent intelligences, in default of any sustaining movements in the soul of the community, betrayed the same disposition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Where was the drug that could still this legion of insurgent nerves? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The thing it would emphatically not do is to dam up an insurgent current until it overflowed the countryside. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Between 1532 and 1535 the insurgents held the town of Münster in Westphalia, and did their utmost to realize their ideas of a religious communism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The insurgents gathered at the H?tel de Ville, and on the tenth of August the Commune launched an attack on the palace of the Tuileries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Suddenly, first at one prison and then at others, bands of insurgents took possession. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But no one need go abroad for actual experience: in the United States Senate during the Taft administration there were really three parties--Republicans, Insurgents and Democrats. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But though the insurgents experienced defeats and looting, neither of these generals brought the war to an end. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was much sympathy with the insurgents in the states. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Exile to Bermuda with other insurgents was not so attractive as the perils of a flight to the United States. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Editor: Nell